Gracenote is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1998, it employs approximately 1,190 people and reported $250.0M in revenue as of 2024. The company functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer and operates as a subsidiary of Nielsen. Gracenote specializes in video data and analytics, powering popular music, movie and TV, and sports services.
On March 11, 2026, Gracenote, the metadata company owned by Nielsen, became the latest entity to file a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging the unauthorized and unpaid use of its metadata and its framework for connecting that information. This action followed the March 10 filing of a federal lawsuit in Manhattan by Nielsen's Gracenote. The complaint accused OpenAI of using Gracenote's copyrighted entertainment data and proprietary relational database structure without permission to train artificial intelligence. This case, involving metadata that identifies movies, TV programs, and other media, could have wide implications for how AI systems utilize structured datasets.
Gracenote's customers primarily consist of online Audio and Video Media and media and TV services companies. Examples of Gracenote's customers include NBCUniversal, Tastemade and DirecTV.
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